Infonews n°218 du 06/06/2004 

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A la Une this week,
D-Day anniversary again, with some new resources, and several 
special reports. In the New, another anniversary : Tiananmen Square, 1989. 
Then find some interesting end of year activities for primary school, sites 
for problem solving tips and exercises, about religion and Buffy, then a 
site to make your own worksheets and flash cards, and two for free online 
training sessions.
Have a nice week!
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A la Une: D-Day 60th anniversary
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US army brochure (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
Britannica's Normandy: 1944 (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
Resources for Teachers
Special Reports
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In the News
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
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Resources for Primary School
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End of year Activities
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Resources for Secondary School
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Searching for Solutions
British Movietone Portraits (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
The Academic Buffy Bibliography (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
BBC Guide to the Religions of the World
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Teaching Tools
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Create your own cards and worksheets (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, 
June 2nd)
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Teaching Practice
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Rubrics : scoring guidelines for Performance Assessment
Instructional Design for Integrating Technologies (from Library Hot Five #227)

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A la Une: D-Day 60th anniversary
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US army brochure (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
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This online version of a 45-page brochure, part of the U.S. Army Campaigns 
of World War II series, chronicles the details of one of the epic assaults 
of history. Illustrated with photographs, maps,
and drawings, it paints a realistic picture of the events from June 6-July 
24, 1944. From the U.S. Army Center for Military History.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/normandy/nor-pam.htm
[ an interesting document, for teachers and advanced students.]

Britannica's Normandy: 1944 (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
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This Encyclopedia Britannica Spotlight Feature on the World War II Allied 
invasion of Normandy in June 1944 covers the buildup, the invasion itself, 
the fighting, the breakout, and memories.
http://search.eb.com/normandy/

Resources for Teachers
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- Don't miss Cécile Cottenceau's site for académie de Caen. You will find 
there sound files, videos, and many other useful resources.
http://www.discip.crdp.ac-caen.fr/anglais/dday/60.htm
- un site réalisé par un prof d'histoire américain pour ses élèves
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/d-day/
- un site réalisé pour des élèves anglais étudiant l'histoire, très complet 
et pédagogique
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/homefront/Preparations/default.htm

Special Reports
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- CNN http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/dday/
- PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/
- NBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/
- Time Magazine(avec un commentaire oral mais pas de sous-titres)
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040531/then_now/intro.html
- BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2004/d-day/default.stm
- The Guardian 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/dday/0,14564,1216111,00.html
- Britannica http://search.eb.com/normandy/studyguide/index.html

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In the News
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
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Companion site to a documentary that explores the 1989 political protest at 
Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Explores themes such as democracy, human 
rights, and nationalism. Also includes an
interactive tour of Tiananmen Square, a chronology of events leading up to 
the protests, a bibliography, video and audio clips, a poster gallery, 
related links, and a transcript of the documentary. Also available in Chinese.
http://www.tsquare.tv/

Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
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Documents providing a U.S. perspective of the events surrounding the 
Chinese government's use of heavily armed military forces against student 
demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
"Includes Selected Documents from the Microfiche Collection: China and the 
United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998."
From George Washington University's National Security Archive.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/

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Resources for Primary School
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End of year Activities
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Although the page is named "Summer Learning recipes" it has nothing to do 
with cooking and the activities can be used all year round. It refers to 
activities that can be practiced at home, using what is available in the 
kitchen, like silverware, cereal boxes and soup cans, but you can bring all 
those in class!
- You can use there ideas as end of the year activities to practice or 
review clothes, numbers, shapes, colours or alphabet....
- and if you plan to use these activities next school year, remember to 
find authentic material during the summer to bring back to your class ( 
British or American magazines, cereal boxes, soup cans, etc.) so you can 
organise the activities as a mother would do in her kitchen.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Recipes/reck-3.html
You can also find inspiration among those activities listed on the site of 
the US natioan lEducation to help parents find summer activities for their 
children:
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Calendar/june99.html
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Calendar/july99.html
Note : there are no links to enrich the activity, so you must work yourself 
from the suggestion and build your own....
And you can also choose from those activities:
http://www.successlink.org/great/showcase.htm
for example, this activity : 'Tell me a story, please'
http://www.successlink.org/great3/g1984.html
for which you can use those online stories:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Fiction/FairyTales/

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Searching for Solutions
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The site reviews the basic steps for problem solving and gives practice 
problems to study in order to learn how to use clues and strategies for 
solving problems. It is organised around 6 strategies, such as working 
backwards or drawing a chart, and for each you find examples of problems, 
the first solved, and the others to discover.
http://gouchercenter.edu/jcampf/webquest_process.htm#strategies
Note : Lots of the problems involve maths and it is the perfect opportunity 
to practice reading numbers!
Follow up : you can also choose to invite them to solve those 'real life 
problems'
http://gouchercenter.edu/jcampf/webquestevaluation.htm

British Movietone Portraits (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
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This site presents brief newsreel footage of famous people and events as 
filmed by British Movietone. Categories include entertainment, 
personalities, lifestyle, and travel. Covers selected events back to 1900 
(primarily 1929-1979), including Beatlemania, the Prince Charles and Lady 
Diana wedding, etc.
http://www.movietone-portraits.com/
[ interesting images, but rather old fashioned and there is no sound!!!!! 
(only a nice nusic, but on De Gaulle for example, we really feel something 
is missing! ;) ]

The Academic Buffy Bibliography (from [LII New This Week] June 3)
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Extensive bibliography of critical/academic writings on the Buffy the 
Vampire Slayer television series, including journal articles, essays, 
theses and dissertations, books, and online papers. Topics include 
philosophy, feminism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, media studies, and more.
From librarian Derik A. Badman.
http://madinkbeard.com/buffy/
[ lots of online articles. Remember that you can also use the sites listed 
in Infonews:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/cours/vampires.htm
to start with Buffy and go on to Bram Stocker's Dracula, Anne Rice and 
Gothic literature. ]

BBC Guide to the Religions of the World
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Provides basic information about Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, 
Judaism, and Sikhism.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/world_religions/
[ a site to bookmark as a reference! In the news, in literature, your 
students keep coming across references to religions that they know only by 
name. Here is the site to send them when they need information. ]

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Teaching Tools
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Create your own cards and worksheets (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, 
June 2nd)
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Create your own worksheets with this free online teacher's tool. Select 
from flashcards, word lists, bingo boards, study sheets, quizzes, matches, 
tracing sheets, word scrambles, wordsearches, and signs.
http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/

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Teaching Practice
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Rubrics : scoring guidelines for Performance Assessment
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Don't miss this free online workshop about how to use rubrics to assess 
your students work. It aims at 4th to 6th grade teachers, which is primary 
school, but it can be very useful at any level. You can find it helpful to 
build assessment grids for oral, or to detail the different components in 
an essay.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/profdev/summerbookclubs/grade46/index.htm

Instructional Design for Integrating Technologies (from Library Hot Five #227)
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This free online course introduces instructional design models and assists 
you through developing your own instructional design plan. Learn to 
integrate technology into instruction, and compare traditional testing with 
authentic assessment.
http://netche.unl.edu/idit/reg.cfm

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